Word: ferdynand
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...blur the fine edge of moral responsibility and idealism. Biblical Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former army Chief of Staff, concedes that one of Israel's greatest challenges is to secure the nation's spiritual imperatives while at the same time trying to preserve its physical existence. Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig puts the matter in a different way: "The contest between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption is the most fateful and crucial conflict on which the future of Israeli society depends...
...Today only one man in three has the same social status his father held; only one in every four sons of unskilled workers is himself unskilled. "Many manual workers," reports a Labor Ministry survey -on spending, "have habits and tastes which formerly were regarded as middle class." But Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig, researching a study of "The Worker in an Affluent Society," found that the new-habits and tastes are largely material. The working class is spending little of its new income on intellectual self-improvement. About 60% neither knew nor cared about Karl Marx (who had direly predicted their growing...
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